Zürich Audio Tour: Timekeepers and Tales of Lindenhof

Explore Zurich at your own pace

Beneath Zurich's elegant facade, ancient intrigues whisper from every stone and spire-this is a city where fortunes turned with a signature and coups were plotted in candlelit rooms.

Crisscross the old town with this self-guided audio tour and uncover tales hidden far from the usual tourist crowds. Let secret meetings, lost treasures and strange traditions come alive around you.

Who dared defy the city fathers in the shadows of Lindenhof's Roman walls? What secrets linger in the stained glass of Fraumünster, where powerful women once ruled? Why did a single misplaced clock ignite a scandal that rattled Zurich's gilded financiers?

Photo: Thimo Pedersen, Unsplash

Tour details

• Duration: 1 hour 5 minutes, entirely at your own pace
• Distance: around 2.1 km (1.3 miles)
• Stops: 14 landmarks, including Oetenbach nunnery, Augustinerkloster Zürich, Globe riot
• Audio: up to 35 minutes of narration
• Starts at: Oetenbach nunnery

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How it works

• Book here and a redemption code arrives by email within minutes.
• Buying for a group? Choose one ticket per person: you get one code that works on every phone in your group.
• Download the free AudaTours app on your phone and enter the code.
• Download the tour once and the whole thing works offline.
• Walk to the first stop and press play. The audio for each landmark starts automatically as you approach it, so your phone can stay in your pocket.

There is no fixed date and no start time. The date you pick at checkout does not matter, and the tour stays on your phone permanently, so you can use it whenever you next visit and walk it again as often as you like.

What is included

• Professionally narrated audio that plays automatically at each stop
• An interactive map showing the walking route between landmarks
• Full offline access once downloaded, so you need no data or signal
• Freedom to start, pause and resume whenever you like
• Lifetime access - your code never expires

Photo: Henrique Ferreira, Unsplash

Where you will stop

• Oetenbach nunnery
• Augustinerkloster Zürich
• Globe riot
• Oetenbach Monastery
• Urania Observatory Zurich
• Rennweg Gate
• Rennweg
• Aries Hotel
• Bank Julius Baer
• Strauhof
• St. Peter's Church
• Kornhaus
• Fraumünster
• Türler Clock

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What is AudaTours?

AudaTours turns a walk through a city into a story. Our guides bring landmarks to life with the history, the scandals and the detail you would never get from a plaque.

• Immersive: real stories about the places in front of you, not a dry commentary
• Offline: download once and use it with no data, anywhere
• At your own pace: start, pause and resume whenever you want
• Accurate: every story is built from verified historical sources and checked before release

Good to know

• This is a self-guided audio tour on your own phone. There is no in-person guide.
• It does not include entry to any building or site along the route.
• The landmarks on the tour are not affiliated with AudaTours.
• You need a smartphone with Android 7.0 or later, or iOS 16 or later.
• Bring headphones and start with a charged phone.

Who it suits

Solo travellers, couples, families and small groups who would rather explore on their own schedule than follow a guide and a fixed departure time. It suits a first visit, and it suits anyone who has already seen the famous sights and wants to know what actually happened in them.

Image credits

Photos: Henrique Ferreira, Thimo Pedersen (Unsplash).